Dear Bloomberg: thanks for nothing
The good news is that Bloomberg is writing about us Canadians working for HRC. “We don’t want Donald Trump to blow up the planet, because it’s our planet, too,” as…
2016
The Case of the Vanishing Site C Video
Last week DeSmog Canada published a video about the Site C dam on Facebook that — after generating nearly 120,000 views in 36 hours — was suddenly removed due to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – George Monbiot rightly makes the point that a general attitude of kindness is a must for a functioning society – while lamenting that…
The Case of the Vanishing Site C Video
Last week DeSmog Canada published a video about the Site C dam on Facebook that — after generating nearly 120,000 views in 36 hours — was suddenly removed due to…
How much do we owe? #nlpoli
CBC Radio Noon had board of trade president Des Whalen in the studio on Monday. Board of Trade thinks the debt is about $13 billion today. Don’t talk about Muskrat…
The latest #uspoli polls, fresh, get ’em while they’re hot
From Jeff, natch. ■RAND C+9 ■REU C+6 ■GOOG C+3 ■ABC: TIED ■SVM C+7 ■CNBC C+10 ■AP C+14 ■PEW C+6 ■SU C+9 ■DC C+12 ■QUI C+7 ■BLO C+9 ■CBS C+9
The Movers And Shakers Are Getting Shook
Our movers and shakers are in denial about the affects of globalization. Jim Stanford writes: The architects of globalization are worried, quite rightly, by both the rhetoric and the reality…
In Greece, Property Is Debt – The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/opinion/in-greece-property-is-debt.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0 Filed under: Uncategorized
I May Have The Answer
Strange cacophonous sounds coming from the skies may seem like the prelude to a science-fiction film, but the phenomenon is actually happening throughout the world. At times sounding like trumpet…
A New Look at an Old Place Wins Prestigious Japanese Award
Hajime Narukawa has won the Good Design Award for a making a map. It might seem trite to some of you but a map has the power to change the…
This is Obama’s America, Obama’s Legacy
You’d think Obama would want his legacy to not be settler/colonial terrorism against First Nations water protectors. See the video below. You’d think he would not be interested in people…
Donald Trump: Parsing the Phenomenon.
You can hardly be a political maven and not want to delve deeply into the political phenomenon of Donald Trump. He challenges the experience and intellect while he corrupts the…
Hillary Clinton and the Republican War on Women
When I watched Hillary Clinton campaigning yesterday, I was impressed by the angry defiant look on her face. And by the fact that she's still standing. For it has been…
Bloomberg: meet the Canadians trying to get Hillary elected
From Bloomberg this morning: Like many Hillary Clinton supporters, Melissa Bruno is an avowed progressive. She’s determined to elect a woman as U.S. president and to stop Donald Trump from…
We get letters: pro-Trump, anti-Wynne forces achieve singularity
@kinsellawarren Now I get it , your a lawyer, another scumbag lawyer like the Clintons. Get a real job, probably a Wynne supporter sucker ! — johnmaher (@johnmaher0) November 2,…
At least one newspaper is endorsing Donald Trump
…the Ku Klux Klan’s newspaper.
The Muskrat Circus rolls back into town #nlpoli
Stan Marshall appeared out of the shadows on Tuesday to do a round of interviews with every media outlet in town. He told NTV what he told everyone else: the…
Before the Flood
First of all, I love that this Leo DiCaprio film, directed by Fisher Stevens, is free to watch everywhere on the National Geographic Channel. (Or was free – I’m not…
Nothing new under the Prairie Sun: Brad Wall isn’t the first Saskatchewan politician to get his orders from Calgary
The recent news that Premier Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party is flush with cash from Calgary-based corporations is both noteworthy and concerning. Due to that province’s lax political finance laws, the…
Wisdom Comes From Living
Last week, I spoke about the resilience of caregivers. This week, I’d like to say a few words about wisdom. What exactly is the wisdom of caregivers? The Oxford Dictionary…